What is trust? And the next couple of lessons we're going to discuss trust. Coaching should be a place where you and your employee can discuss things openly. Having a trusting relationship with your employee is essential to the coaching process. Without trust you will sell them get to the root cause of issues that could be hindering their performance. Trust is built over time and is accomplished through your actions.

Trust in the realm of coaching could be defined as the ability to instill confidence and reliance in you by being fair, truthful, honorable and competent in what you do as a manager, lacking in any of these areas could hinder you instilling trust into your employees. Let us look at how trust works in coaching.